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The biological functions of telomeres and telomerase are also related to neural cell proliferation and apoptosis. The study aimed to investigate the effect of parental folate deficiency on the proliferation and apoptosis of neural stem cells (NSCs) in neonatal offspring and the role of telomeres in this effect. In this study, rats were divided into four groups: maternal folate-deficient and paternal folate-deficient diet (D-D) group; maternal folate-deficient and paternal folate-normal diet (D-N) group; maternal folate-normal and paternal folate-deficient diet (N-D) group; and the maternal folate-normal and paternal folate-normal diet (N-N) group. The offspring were sacrificed at postnatal day 0 (PND0), and NSCs were cultured from the hippocampus and striatum tissues of offspring for future assay. The results revealed that parental folate deficiency decreased folate levels, increased homocysteine (Hcy) levels of the offspring\u2019s brain tissue, inhibited proliferation, increased apoptosis, shortened telomere length, and aggravated telomere attrition of offspring NSCs in vivo and in vitro. In vitro experiments further showed that offspring NSCs telomerase activity was inhibited due to parental folate deficiency. In conclusion, parental folate deficiency inhibited the proliferation and increased apoptosis of offspring NSCs, maternal folate deficiency had more adverse effects than paternal, and the mechanisms may involve the telomere attrition of NSCs.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/nu15132843","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,23]],"date-time":"2023-06-23T02:34:07Z","timestamp":1687487647000},"page":"2843","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Parental Folate Deficiency Inhibits Proliferation and Increases Apoptosis of Neural Stem Cells in Rat Offspring: Aggravating Telomere Attrition as a Potential Mechanism"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Qinghan","family":"Ren","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nutrition and Food Science, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Guoquan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nutrition and Food Science, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Cuixia","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nutrition and Food Science, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhenshu","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nutrition and Food Science, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China"},{"name":"Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environment, Nutrition and Public Health, Tianjin 300070, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dezheng","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nutrition and Food Science, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Li","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nutrition and Food Science, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wen","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nutrition and Food Science, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China"},{"name":"Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environment, Nutrition and Public Health, Tianjin 300070, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Guowei","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nutrition and Food Science, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China"},{"name":"Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environment, Nutrition and Public Health, Tianjin 300070, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jing","family":"Yan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environment, Nutrition and Public Health, Tianjin 300070, China"},{"name":"Department of Social Medicine and Health Administration, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"92","DOI":"10.1186\/s12987-022-00391-3","article-title":"Novel localization of folate transport systems in the murine central nervous system","volume":"19","author":"Sangha","year":"2022","journal-title":"Fluids Barriers CNS"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"McNulty, H., Rollins, M., Cassidy, T., Caffrey, A., Marshall, B., Dornan, J., McLaughlin, M., McNulty, B.A., Ward, M., and Strain, J.J. 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